FLXTroutman

is it too early in your career to crown you the new KING of Lake Ontario? All hail King Rick great pictures and all of your intelligence shared with your people, to the KING

I wear glasses so the goggles are so I could see through the rain and fog, it was Labor Day weekend and you would have thought it was November 14, also Grunden's rule

nice looking SSW you made there

great fish gambler congrats, now give me my 33canuck good luck charm back,

hell yea I remember that one, I was driving the Yankee Troller from the flybridge in the cold and rain on Labor Day while you guys were eating your cereal in the cabin, that was the first time time I saw you could set a dipsy at 15', then it screamed to 500' in 10 seconds Fidel Castro the fisherman

great fish guys, sorry to hear about your rigger Brett, I am going to have to find some white flies because my mtn dew spin dr hasn't had a hit all year

My family had our annual reunion renting a house on Canandaigua Lake this past week. We started fishing Sunday morning 8/5, I dock at Sutter's Marina and the house we rented was on Island View Dr., the Squaw Island, is the viewing island. I had my brother in law Dale drop me off at the marina, we rigged the boat and he drove back to the house and I would motor over to the house to pick up Dale, my dad and my niece Emily. I never drove near the Squaw Island before, never had a reason to but I knew there were some marker bouys south of Squaw indicating shallow water. I noticed another vessel anchored north of Squaw so I ventured between Squaw Island and the anchored vessel. I watched the sonar as I moved through the shallow water 3.5, 3.0, 2.5, and then 1.5, I felt her bottom out teetering on her keel, thinking what am I going to do now? Luckily there was stiff south wind blowing 20 mph- 30 mph creating a little surf so I pointed the bow north with the outdrive all the way up and she sledded off the sand bar into slightly better water. Holy crap, what a way to start the day, there is a little channel from Holiday Harbor condos which the boats there use to get to the main channel which enters the lake. I called my dad and said meet me at Sutter's, and I picked them up and off we went. The wind blowing out of the south gave for a nice choppy ride to Menteth Point. We hit some big waves heading out but I knew this was prime Canandaigua Lake conditions. We searched the point and there was another boat out, a charter guy chuck527 knows and he was already moving north with the waves so we followed suit. I had my regular suspects out on the 3 wire rods, 3 riggers and 300' copper out on a planer board. We trolled all the way to just before German Brothers without a touch when the high diver fired violently, a Canandaigua screamer, I grabbed the rod and that fish took a diver set at 113' to 200' really fast, he did some acrobatics for us before we landed a healthy 5lb. rainbow. As I was putting the bow on ice the 143' diver fired ripping drag, my niece Emily grabs the rod and she did a great job bringing an 8lb rainbow to the net. With the south wind the bait and fish had moved north, the fish were out of temp, but I had those diver rods right where the marks were on the sonar. Great first morning even though we were just 2 for 2. We headed back out Sunday evening working the water in front of German Bros. again good rainbow action off the wires and riggers, 4 for 4 all 3 lb 18" cookie cutters. Monday 8/6 we went 5 for 7, 3 lakers one 5 lbs, 2 skippers, and 4 rainbows, 2 3lbs, and 2 skippers. Tuesday morning we had to run to Long Point to find the fish not as good of numbers 3 for 3 with one 3 lb laker and 2 skips. I figured the fish had really moved south after the lake settled down after the big blow on Sunday. Wednesday morning we went searching further south to Seneca Point area, again not a lot of size or numbers but 3 for 3 in 2 1/2 hours. I saw tannero's post that he was considering heading to Whiskey Point so I headed there on Thursday morning. I set up near Whiskey marking a few fish but ended up heading west to Cook's Point. We saw tannero out there, we were getting some small bows 17"-19" but when I would release them they would go belly up. We would circle back and scoop them up so the damn gulls would not get their free breakfast. I just couldn't get much going when trolling the shorelines from 135'-185' so I pointed the boat north right up the middle of the lake. By the time we were out from Vine Valley and Seneca Point the copper rod began to fire. My brother boated a nice 4 lb laker and when I reset the copper, it fired again, the kids didn't want to reel in the copper rod so I reeled it in. Good thing because I knew it was a good fish. She tipped the scale at 9 1/2 lbs. Best producers of the week was 300' copper with green Revelator and ATOMIK nuclear glow fly, white chrome/glow pro troll echip with ATOMIK mirage fly on diver rod at 113', 143', 163', NK 4-d spoon hammered silver no paint left on it on rigger at 65', silver streak pink alewife on slider off 88' rigger. Also ran the Charnelia Special, a "0000" Luhr Jensen hammered silver dodger pulling a Suttons 22 off a rigger, seems to only catch skip bows though. See picture.

Good job tanner Nice creel mate [ Post made via iPhone ]

I will be running to south end Thursday morning call me on ch 68 [ Post made via iPhone ]

damn, you are one tuff ass captain, and there is just no substitute for a very skilled doctor!

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=34296 not sure how big you want to go but here is one right here on LOU, looks pretty decent and rigged, I have seen some real clunkers on craigslist for 4k to 5k, be careful

you should consider fish pay attention to the moon, and move until you stop getting weeds, fleas well there out there, makes it tough, just got to check lines, clean up and reset

I have an older LMS 480 M that came with the used boat I boat in 2008, the gps puck quit last fall and the sounder capabilities seemed weaker. So I purchased a new transducer in February and mounted it, I am so impressed with the new ducer it gives a great picture just like the color Raymarine DSX 400 on my old 14 footer. Just sayin, my sonar view is way better now, I jumped off the back of my boat to swim yesterday and could hear the "pings" or clicks off the ducer. I would love to have a Furuno though!

well done, that's a beauty

Started early off Seneca Point at 5:45 am, worked some Suttons on riggers and white with mirage on the divers, blue paddle with blue bubble fly on 300' copper. The Suttons didn't get em going so I asked the young boys fishing with me to choose spoons while their dad drove the boat. Quint picked a NK 4-d with half the black and green paint chipped off, I said are you sure you want that one, (it's kind of bent funny too) and he said yes that's the one. SO down it went to the marks at 125' over 175 fow, and it must have been 2 minutes later, and bam that spoon got bit. The only other bite was on the blue paddle with the blue bubble fly off the copper rod but I told the guys we should let him go to grow. We were back at the cottage by 8:45 am. We tried our luck in the afternoon with 33canuck aboard but didn't get any bites with his attractors and flies. Tough flasher fly bite for me this year. Monday evening I had to bring the boat back to Sutters from Seneca Point and sent two riggers down in front of German Bros. and worked north to the drop off marked a few fish and some jumbo bait balls switched from the blue on blue to my Italian flasher and blue and hit a nice smallmouth down 40 ft., the kids spoon pick didn't get bit. Here's the pics, though. I will be out all next week so I hope I can find the hungry fish. Monday evening bait balls and smallmouth pics

I like the shotgun start video, looks like Brett's team got the holeshot win and then the black and red Lund pulled away

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the ol' sutton spoon, damn, good presentation there Bob, we run them once in awhile but not too successfully just saw an article about manufacturing jobs in the daily messenger kathy hochul was downtown canandaigua at the american made store, that's a retail store, I wish she would have gone down to the sutton spoon store because they are manufacturing something and selling it, also in the daily messenger thursday, kershaw park CLOSED to SWIMMING indefinitely due to some contamination found in the water, hmm WTF is in the LAKE!! maybe that frakenlaker we caught was up there in the spring eating and bumped his head on the bottom, sure hope they figure out what the hell is the lake.

way to go, glad you got into some fish, that 65' depth has been good for my copper and riggers

off probe rigger with shark green glow stickbait 40' down 5' back off center rigger with Hammerhead watermelon trolls with spin and glows

33canuck and fireplug joined me this morning and we were looking to get into some good action on the early bite. We blasted off past Squaw Island as we watched some lightning down south, hoping the severe weather would stay south. We ran down about mid lake setting up in 90 fow, I lowered the probe rigger first with a glow green stickbait just 6 feet off the shark, temp on surface was 80, temp at 35 ft was 74, then got 65 degrees at 40. We kept the speed on the Subtroll 900 at 1.5 mph, as we set the other two riggers at 55 with j9 GFR, and 65 with stinger mag nbk. Wires weren't even set when the 40' probe rigger fired. Took a real nice smallmouth 4lbs, quite a long fish and dark markings. Let him go and reset just a little deeper, moving the other riggers down a bit as well. Wires were out 195 with a gator spin dr with nbk fly, 265 with a livewire spin dr and green hammer fly. Both of those wires took good hits, we dropped a couple wire fish but the gator/nbk combo was hot. Kurt had his copper down the chute 350' back with a glow spin dr and mirage fly and took a smaller laker, I had my 300' copper out on church board with a 3/4 oz. firetiger daredevle spoon and I got a little one too. When I reset that daredevle spoon it swam a little longer before taking a nice shot, I fought him for bit while Kurt was setting his new cowbell set up with a watermelon hammerhead troll followed by his handtied spin and glows, we were keeping the speed at 1.5 and that was just a tad too slow for me to keep the nice one I had on hooked. Fish popped off on the surface about 100 feet back, reset. The wire rods with Kurt's combos took most of our fish including a Frankenfish with bulging eye and lamprey like scar on his head. Kurt's Hammerhead cowbells and spin and glows took fish too. I kept one nice fish to eat but should have kept the other nice size laker we caught because by around 8:15am it looked like were were in for a storm. We were south of long point by the time we had all the rods in and it was a total downpour. With some lightning flashing I took no chances and took shelter at Pelican Point Marina. We tied up and I was in awe of the torrential downpour we were in, Kurt kept his eye on the radar on his phone while I made sure the bilge pump was working as it should and cleared some debris from the weep holes at the battery box wells. When it looked like there would be break we shot out there fast as hell. Good thing the Brown How'ND is running in tip top condition and we did about 43 mph back to the safety of Sutter's Marina. Good fishing until that storm drenched us, some smaller fish but we did get a couple good sized lakers to the boat. The big bass was a highlight since I have not caught one on a rigger in couple of years. Supposedly there was bass tourney on Canandaigua today according to the clerk at Sunoco on Main St. I venture a guess that I would have had the big fish of the day in the bass tournament. I will post my pics and Kurt and Todd will post their pics too. Also as a point of interest, Tom's Mobil on Main St. Canandaigua has ethanol free gas for sale. They are located on north bound side of Main St next to Pizza Hut.

I like spin dr you had, is that a glow frog or is that the seneca special?

sweet looking fishing machine, congratulations

early bite produced nice bow for my nephew on rigger, 41' down it was 53 degrees, 2.0 mph at the ball, fleas are getting bad, I'll let the photos tell the rest of the story

I use 30 lb wire jerry, still can get flead up, I check them more, and may change baits too, new moon may be factor. I heard some folks say this is the fastest warm up of the lake they have ever seen. Just gonna get better.